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    The peak of the next sunspot cycle is expected in late 2011 or mid-2012 -- potentially affecting airline flights, communications satellites and electrical transmissions. But forecasters can't agree on how intense it will be.

    A 12-member panel charged with forecasting the solar cycle said Wednesday it is evenly split over whether the peak will be 90 sunspots or 140 sunspots.

    The government's Space Environment Center in Boulder, Colorado, tracks space weather and forecasts its changes, which can affect millions of dollars worth of activities such as oil drilling, car navigation systems and astronauts.

    Half of the specialists predicted a moderately strong cycle of 140 sunspots expected to peak in October of 2011, while the rest called for a moderately weak cycle of 90 sunspots peaking in August of 2012.

    "We're hoping to achieve a consensus sometime in the next six to 12 months," said Douglas Biesecker, a space environment center scientist who is chairman of the forecast panel.

    An average solar cycle ranges from 75 to 155 sunspots.

    During an active solar period, violent eruptions occur more often on the sun, the agency said. Solar flares and vast explosions, known as coronal mass ejections, shoot highly charged matter toward Earth.

    Making these predictions is important for many businesses, which have been asking for a forecast for nearly a year, Biesecker said.

    Just like coastal residents want a hurricane forecast as early as possible, so do those affected by solar activity, said Joseph Kunches, chief of forecast and analysis at the center, which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

    Daniel Baker, director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado-Boulder, noted that more than $200 billion satellites in space can be affected by changes in solar radiation as the cycle rises and falls.

    In addition, Baker said, other problems include:

    # Airlines flying over the pole face loss of communications that could force them to use a different, longer route at an added cost of as much as $100,000 per flight.

    # The Global Positioning System is immensely important to commerce and can be disrupted by solar activity.

    # Operating floating oil rigs in the ocean requires keeping them positioned within a few inches to prevent damaging drilling gear. "They have to know when GPS is going to be accurate."

    # There is an increased radiation risk to humans in space.

    # Currents can be induced in long electrical transmission lines, causing blackouts.

    In the past, such problems have been caused by solar superstorms, he said.

    "Storms don't have to be so super any more" to cause problems, Baker said, as more and more systems become susceptible to solar effects.

    W. Dean Pesnell of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory said the solar storms also can heat the Earth's upper atmosphere, causing it to expand. This increases drag on satellites, slowing them down. It also affects the position of the space debris encircling the planet, and it is essential to keep track of that debris for the safety of space flight.

    The forecasters said the current solar cycle will probably end next March, when Solar Cycle 24 will begin. That will mean Cycle 23 lasted 12 years, slightly longer than the usual 11-year cycle.

    http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/0....ap/index.html

    #2
    And when does this become a stargate story, they already dealt with solar flares in Echoes, i doubt they would do another filler episode with a similar plot based around earth and the SGC which is no longer going to be on TV..
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      #3
      Oh I've got it, Vala is going to visit that guy from the diner she worked in, but the solar flares affect her GPS and she gets lost and ends up in some po-dunk town in teh middle of nowhere, hilarity ensues. They could call it Stargate: Children of the Corn.
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        #4
        Right, a Coronal Mass Ejection could be headed for Earth and Oddysey has to stop it. Oh wait...
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          #5
          Wait add in some mass migratory animals, and you get...
          The SGC on collision course with half of the american continents wildlife and birds falling from the sky..Hey thats a random though, where the hell are the birds on atlantis!
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            #6
            Originally posted by Starxgate View Post
            The peak of the next sunspot cycle is expected in late 2011 or mid-2012 -- potentially affecting airline flights, communications satellites and electrical transmissions. But forecasters can't agree on how intense it will be.

            A 12-member panel charged with forecasting the solar cycle said Wednesday it is evenly split over whether the peak will be 90 sunspots or 140 sunspots.

            The government's Space Environment Center in Boulder, Colorado, tracks space weather and forecasts its changes, which can affect millions of dollars worth of activities such as oil drilling, car navigation systems and astronauts.

            Half of the specialists predicted a moderately strong cycle of 140 sunspots expected to peak in October of 2011, while the rest called for a moderately weak cycle of 90 sunspots peaking in August of 2012.

            "We're hoping to achieve a consensus sometime in the next six to 12 months," said Douglas Biesecker, a space environment center scientist who is chairman of the forecast panel.

            An average solar cycle ranges from 75 to 155 sunspots.

            During an active solar period, violent eruptions occur more often on the sun, the agency said. Solar flares and vast explosions, known as coronal mass ejections, shoot highly charged matter toward Earth.

            Making these predictions is important for many businesses, which have been asking for a forecast for nearly a year, Biesecker said.

            Just like coastal residents want a hurricane forecast as early as possible, so do those affected by solar activity, said Joseph Kunches, chief of forecast and analysis at the center, which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

            Daniel Baker, director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado-Boulder, noted that more than $200 billion satellites in space can be affected by changes in solar radiation as the cycle rises and falls.

            In addition, Baker said, other problems include:

            # Airlines flying over the pole face loss of communications that could force them to use a different, longer route at an added cost of as much as $100,000 per flight.

            # The Global Positioning System is immensely important to commerce and can be disrupted by solar activity.

            # Operating floating oil rigs in the ocean requires keeping them positioned within a few inches to prevent damaging drilling gear. "They have to know when GPS is going to be accurate."

            # There is an increased radiation risk to humans in space.

            # Currents can be induced in long electrical transmission lines, causing blackouts.

            In the past, such problems have been caused by solar superstorms, he said.

            "Storms don't have to be so super any more" to cause problems, Baker said, as more and more systems become susceptible to solar effects.

            W. Dean Pesnell of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory said the solar storms also can heat the Earth's upper atmosphere, causing it to expand. This increases drag on satellites, slowing them down. It also affects the position of the space debris encircling the planet, and it is essential to keep track of that debris for the safety of space flight.

            The forecasters said the current solar cycle will probably end next March, when Solar Cycle 24 will begin. That will mean Cycle 23 lasted 12 years, slightly longer than the usual 11-year cycle.

            http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/0....ap/index.html
            They just covered pretty much that exact same storyline in 'Echoes' this season. They have ZPM's, so all they'd need to do was send another 304 to meet it head on. The ZPM would boost the shields & thus would allow them to deflect everything away from Earth's path.

            Nothing else you could really do to spin it, other than it's so powerful that a ZOM couldn't even hold it back. However if that was the case, then all they'd need to do is use Merlin's Device & phase shift to safety.

            Considering SG-1 is only doing 2 movies per year & their screen time is limited. I don't think they'd waste it copying a story that they just done on Atlantis. Sorry but the time they have these days is too precious. It's only to be reserved for the big stories that the writers have in mind!

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              #7
              You know they also covered sunspots in "1969".
              All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing-Edmund Burke

              The question which once haunted my being has been answered. The future is not fixed, and my choices are my own... and yet, how ironic! For I now find, I have no choice at all! I am warrior... let the battle be joined.-Dinobot-Code of Hero

              Don't blame me, I voted Cthulhu

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                #8
                Originally posted by jds1982 View Post
                You know they also covered sunspots in "1969".
                They covered solar flares in both '1969' & '2010'.

                Don't think any others were used in SG-Land before they brought in 'Echoes' to Atlantis.

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                  #9
                  Solar activty was mentioned in New ground, Red sky, the first commandment, all of the aschen and time travel episodes, space race, 100days i think..
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